Recorder player, ensemble leader, conductor, festival director and university professor Dorothee Oberlinger is one of today's internationally influential personalities in the field of early music. She has been awarded national and international music prizes such as the Opus Klassik (2020, Instrumentalist of the Year), Echo Klassik, the Diapason d'Or, the ICMA Award and the Telemann Prize of the City of Magdeburg.